Hal David, a lyricist who along with composer Burt Bacharach took the pop world by storm in the 1960s with hits such as Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head and Walk On By, died in Los Angeles on Saturday at the age of 91, a representative said.
David died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, said Jim Steinblatt, spokesman for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Earlier this year, David and Bacharach received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. David, a native of Brooklyn, New York, began his songwriting career in the late 1940s. He started working with Bacharach in the late 1950s and their songs were recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and Barbra Streisand, and later Dionne Warwick. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. – (Reuters)